Brunel Psychology

🌍🧠 Shared Horizons Seminar at @brunelpsy.bsky.social

We’re excited to welcome Prof Quentin Atkinson (University of Auckland) to Brunel for a talk on:

“The history of the world’s languages and why it matters for psychologists.”

📅 25 March 2026
🕑 14:00–16:00
📍 ESGW 111 + online

4/4 A big thank you to all our speakers and everyone who came along - it was fantastic to see so many students thinking about their next steps

#BrunelPsychology #PsychologyCareers #StudentLife

3/ its a great reminder that psychology opens doors to many different paths, and hearing directly from people working in those fields can make those possibilities feel much more real 💙

There was lots of discussion, networking… and plenty of pizza to keep everyone going 🍕

2/ The lunch featured a wide range of talks from speakers sharing their career journeys - from research and clinical work to roles in industry, policy and beyond.

1/ 🍕🧠 Psychology Uncovered was a huge success!

Fantastic to see such a strong turnout from Brunel students keen to explore what the future can look like with a psychology degree

1/ 📢 Participants Needed: UK Gender & Sexual Healthcare Study

Phase 2 of our research with Gendered Intelligence is now open - and we’re recruiting adults across the UK.

You will get to: support a national event, work with families & researchers and counts toward Brunel+ Award

Details on Brunel Volunteering page now – don’t miss it! 🌟

Nu Know Working together to navigate adolescence.

📣 Brunel students – want event experience?
We’re supporting Nu Know to recruit up to 6 volunteers for the Parent-Teen Summit

📍 Boxpark Wembley
🗓 2nd April 2026

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1/ 🎮🌍 Shared Horizons Seminar Series

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Patricia Kanngiesser (University of Plymouth) to Brunel Psychology for:

“Games for the future: Using experimental games to study sustainable behaviour across ages and populations.”

🗓 25 Feb 2026 | 2-4pm open to all 🔓

Nu Know Working together to navigate adolescence.

📣 @brunelpsy.bsky.social and the @culturemindslab.bsky.social with @nicolewen.bsky.social and @loraadair.bsky.social is excited to support Nu Know’s Parent-Teen Summit 2026 at Boxpark Wembley 🧡 📣

🗓 Thursday 2nd April 2026

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Excited to see this paper out, with @aiyanakoka.bsky.social, led by @brunelpsy.bsky.social alumnus Dr. Nachita Rosun, now a postdoc at @obu-hst-research.bsky.social. Summary in the thread 👇🏻

Brunel psychology officially opened our new common room for students today 🧠🤩🥳

Somewhere for students to relax, having coffee and socialise between lecturers 💙

Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius Despite the central role of religion in human history and its continued global growth, an increasing number of individuals identify as secular or athe…

1/ New paper from @brunelpsy.bsky.social CCE in Evolution & Human Behavior looks at secularisation in Mauritius 🇲🇺

Nachita Rosun, @matthewmgervais.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social have been testing big theories outside the usual Western settings 🌏

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5/ This is the first study to link AD biomarkers and cognition using a fully multivariate, network-based approach - moving beyond single test scores to system-level change.

🔬🧠 A powerful example of how network science can deepen our understanding of cognitive ageing and Alzheimer’s disease.

4/ In particular, semantic memory (how we process and store meaning) becomes more central in the network, suggesting a shift in how cognitive systems interact.

3/ the team found that people with high beta-amyloid don’t just show lower cognitive performance - their cognitive networks themselves are reorganised.

2/ Using data from 2,800 + participants, the study builds neuropsychological networks to ask: do cognitive systems reorganise in people who are positive for Alzheimer’s biomarkers?

The effect of Alzheimer’s biomarker positivity on neuropsychological networks Wright et al. show that people with brain amyloidosis have significant alterations in their neuropsychological network, when this is analysed with the meth

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1/ 🧠📊 New paper in Brain Communications by Dr Matteo De Marco and colleagues uses network science to rethink how cognition changes in Alzheimer’s disease 🧪
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Awards like this are a reminder that great psychology doesn’t happen without great support and we’re incredibly proud to see that excellence recognised at a national level 💙

This recognition highlights the often behind-the-scenes expertise that makes high-quality teaching and research possible. Andrei’s work exemplifies the excellence, dedication and care that technical staff bring to supporting students and colleagues every day 🔬📚

Congratulations to the winners of the BPS and the Association of Technical Staff in Psychology (ATSiP) awards 2025 | BPS The BPS and the Association of Technical Staff in Psychology (ATSiP) awards recognise the integral role that technicians play in advancing psychological research.

🎉 Congratulations to Andrei Barbanta! 🎉

We’re delighted to share that Andrei Barbanta, our outstanding Technician at Brunel University of London psychology, has won a British Psychological Society Technician Award 🏆👏

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🧠✏️ How does the brain actually design?

Join us for a talk by Prof John S Gero (Drexel University) on what neuroscience reveals about designing: from architects to engineers, tools to AI

Cohosted by CCN and @brunelcce.bsky.social

📅 4 Feb | 11-12
📍 Bannerman 109 + online
Open to all 👋 👇 🔗

📢 Happening this time next week!

Open to all! 🔓

📅29th January 2-4pm Brunel campus or online

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Don’t Send A Magician To Do A Scientist’s Job: A New Blog Series About Our Experiments In Teaching Science to Young Scientists — Will Gervais We’re doing some exciting and innovative things with our methods, stats, and skills curriculum and we want to tell y’all about it! Debuting our new bespoke 9-module statistics, methods, and skills cu...

Dusted off the ol' blog after years of heavy disuse because I'm h*ckin' excited to tell y'all about some of the exciting things we're trying in our stats/methods/skills curriculum at Brunel!

Read! Share! Tell us what you think!
#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

Is the world becoming more religious or less religious? Join this event to hear Conrad Hackett explore the conflicting narratives about religion in the UK and around the world.

Is the world becoming more religious? Is a Christian revival underway in the UK?
I'll discuss these questions in London next week:
Wed. at @ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Thur. at @brunelpsy.bsky.social students.brunel.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
& Thur. at Kings www.linkedin.com/pulse/really...

@willgervais.com wonderfully showcasing the work of CCE members @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social in re vamping the research methods at @brunelpsy.bsky.social 💙

We’re learning as we go but dead excited 📚☠️🤗

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Hackett’s work shapes how we understand religion’s links to gender, fertility, education & population trends 👀

📍 ESGW 111 + online via Teams 👇
☕ Refreshments for in-person attendees!

A must for anyone interested in religion, demography & social change 🛐